[R] R-demo for non-statisticians/mathematicians

[Ko-Kang@xtra.co.nz]

Hi Ryan,

What a co-incidence!  I've just done a demo for my fellow club members, who are, generally, non-statisticians!  What I had done is to show them a PowerPoint demonstration, with some R-history, what it is capable of, why we should use it, a couple of snap shots, some students' comments, its memory management technique...etc.  After that I showed a real-time demo using R, to run a couple of R scripts that I obtained from various places (and some of them were written by myself).  The scripts I used include the demo(graphics), however with some little re-arrangements.

The entire slides can be obtained from http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/SDK/SAD/FirstMeeting/, along with all the scripts I used!

Hope this helps you in some degree,

Cheers,

Ko-Kang Wang

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Statistical Analysis Division Leader
Software Developers' Klub
University of Auckland
New Zealand

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Elmore" <elmore at stat.psu.edu>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:27 AM
Subject: [R] R-demo for non-statisticians/mathematicians


> Hi all.  A friend of mine asked me to assist with an R presentation to the
> Penn State LUG in a few weeks.  The audience will be predominately
> computer scientists and/or engineers (I suspect) and they are just looking
> for presentations of good open source software and my friend volunteered
> R.  We are both relatively new to R, so I thought it would be best to ask
> the list for your opinion....what do the expert R-users think would be
> most appropriate for a presentation to non-statistical people?  I see a
> lot of postings from people in other disciplines and I would love to hear
> what you have to say as well.  By the way, I am aware of the demo()
> function in R and I am absolutely amazed by that, but not everybody in
> this audience will think the Brownian motion plot is as cool as I do!
> Many thanks in advance,
> Ryan Elmore
> PhD candidate
> PSU - Dept of Statistics
> 
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